Parallel Verses

Webster

Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; (seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life)

New American Standard Bible

Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life,

King James Version

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

Holman Bible

“So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us—his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life—

International Standard Version

"So when I go back to your servant, my father, and the young man isn't with us, since he's constantly living life focused on his son,

A Conservative Version

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life,

American Standard Version

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

Amplified

Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man’s life,

Bible in Basic English

If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,

Darby Translation

And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, seeing that his life is bound up with his life,

Julia Smith Translation

And now if I came to thy servant my father, and the youth not with us, for his soul is bound upon his soul,

King James 2000

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

Lexham Expanded Bible

So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us--now his life is bound up with his life--

Modern King James verseion

And now when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, since his life is bound up in his life,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, if the lad be not with me - seeing that his life hangeth by the lad's life -

NET Bible

"So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us -- his very life is bound up in his son's life.

New Heart English Bible

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;

The Emphasized Bible

Now, therefore, as surely as I go in unto thy servant my father, and, the lad, is not with us, - seeing that his soul is bound up with the lads soul,

World English Bible

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;

Youngs Literal Translation

'And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

and the lad
נער 
Na`ar 
Usage: 239

be not with us seeing that his life
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

is bound up
קשׁר 
Qashar 
Usage: 44

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Joseph Tests His Brothers

29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief shall befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 30 Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; (seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life) 31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father, with sorrow to the grave.

Cross References

1 Samuel 18:1

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Genesis 44:17

And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, go in peace to your father.

Genesis 44:31

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father, with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 44:34

For how shall I return to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father.

1 Samuel 25:29

Yet a man hath risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thy enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the middle of a sling.

2 Samuel 18:33

And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! O that I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

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